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JoseBalow

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1. Tarkovsky's "Stalker" comes to mind
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:20 PM
Yesterday

The thought of visiting Chernobyl's exclusion zone always reminds me of Stalker. I imagine that's what the place looks and feels like today. I'd still love to check it out also, though.

Based on the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The Zone that arose on Earth for unknown reasons attracts attention with inexplicable phenomena that occur there. A rumor has spread that in the center of the Zone there is something that gives a person everything he wants. But staying in the Zone is deadly, and therefore it is strictly guarded. There, each for their own reasons, the Writer and the Professor go, the Stalker leads them to the mysterious center, feeling and understanding the Zone...


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